17 September – 27 May

Apéropéra

Booking Required

Apéropéra presents a short, convivial artistic proposition that reimagines operatic fragments in an informal apéritif setting. Each episode offers a distilled encounter between singers, instrumentalists and visual contributors, favouring intimate staging, inventive arrangements and moments of improvisation. The format privileges immediacy and exchange, inviting nuanced listening and playful dramaturgy. Performances alternate between lyrical excerpts and contemporary reinterpretations, offering a sensory, accessible approach to opera’s emotional and theatrical textures.

Program:
– The Tempest (Société de lecture) – Thursday 17 September, 18:30
– Company (Théâtre Les Salons) – Wednesday 30 September, 18:30
– The Marriage of Figaro (Maison Rousseau et Littérature) – Thursday 3 December, 18:30
– Theodora (Bâtiment des Forces Motrices) – Thursday 14 January, 18:30
– Journey to Reims (Musée d’Art et d’Histoire) – Thursday 28 January, 18:30
– The Girl of the Golden West (Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève) – Thursday 25 February, 18:30
– Only the Sound Remains (Les 6 Toits) – Thursday 29 April, 18:30
– The Threepenny Opera (Ecole de Musiques Actuelles) – Thursday 27 May, 18:30

Genève,
Switzerland

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Photo Credit: DR

22 September – 29 November

La Demande en mariage et l’ours

Performances

Théâtre de Carouge

Two short plays by Anton Chekhov staged by Tibor Ockenfels and Flavie Tapparel, presented as compact dramatic machines where romantic comedy masks escalating confrontations between desire, affection and material interest. Performances rely on precise physical timing, terse exchanges and a lean, playful design to reveal the simmering violence behind courtship rituals. The three actors — Estelle Bridet, Matteo Prandi and Raphaël Vachoux — inhabit heightened character types that shift between farce and darker comic truth, creating a sharply observed, kinetic evening.

In French.

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14 – 24 October

Le Dieu du carnage

Performances

Théâtre Pitoëff

Directed by Elidan Arzoni, this fiery, hilarious staging of Yasmina Reza’s play follows two couples whose polite attempt to resolve a quarrel between their sons collapses into a savage verbal carnage. Performers Sophie Broustal, Vincent Jacquet, Camille Édith Bouzaglo and Frédéric Landenberg unleash sharp, tightly wound exchanges, while Benoît Delaunay’s scenography and Hervé Broillet’s costumes frame escalating social fractures. Danielle Milovic’s lighting and meticulous stagecraft intensify a darkly comic exploration of civility, hypocrisy and unleashed instincts.

In French.

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Thursday 22 October, 18:30

De(s)possession(s) by Vanessa Riera

Performances

MAH

Choreographed and created by Vanessa Riera, this défilé-performance brings together a mixed community of young people in migration, artistic trainees and youth experiencing social rupture, who prepared the work through workshops and perform as the runway cast. The creative team includes a musician, a scenographer, an assistant, a technician and a make-up artist. Reclaimed garments sourced from textile bins and a social wardrobe are reshaped into sculptural, elegant costumes. The piece blends fashion and choreography to explore belonging, identity and material transformation.

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Thursday 22 October

The Impromptus

Performances

MAH

Choreographed by Cindy Van Acker and created with textile artist Vanessa Riera, this défilé-performance gathers a mixed community of young people in migration, participants in artistic training and those described as ‘en rupture’. It centers on upcycling fabrics and collective empowerment, blending improvised, moment-driven movement with tactile costume interventions. The work strikes a close dialogue with surrounding artworks and the public, presented within the exhibition Observatoires: Carte blanche à John M Armleder and the 4th edition of the biennale Dance first. Think later.

In French.

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17 September – 18 December

Manon Bril – 300 000 ans

Performances

Théâtre de la Madeleine

Created by Manon Bril and Etienne Lautrette and directed by Théo Comby Lemaitre, this hybrid lecture-performance blends scholarly rigour with theatrical wit. Historian Manon Bril guides the audience through surprising episodes of human history, overturning assumptions with a sharp, offbeat humour and playful staging. The show mixes clear popular-science explanation, theatrical images and comic timing to reveal that nothing has “always been like this”.

In French.

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17 October – 29 November

Cendrillon

Performances

Théâtre de la Madeleine

Directed by Rebecca Stella and adapted with Danielle Barthélemy, Cendrillon blends classic fairy-tale drama with manga-inspired staging. Pili Loop’s original score, Mathieu Courtaillier’s lighting and the set by Camille Ansquer shape a vivid, contemporary universe. Costumes by Alice Toutev and Sonia Bosc and choreography by Léon add playful movement and character. Anthony Surleraux’s video projections and graphics expand the tale’s visual world, pairing tradition with modern theatrical textures.

In French.

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